Date   : Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:36:04 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Sprow <rsprowso@...>
Subject: Re: 2 player gaming

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Thomas Harte wrote:

> In order to keep the conversation alive, I have drafted a possible protocol
> for this sort of thing and uploaded it to
> http://electrem.emuunlim.com/smp.htm . Although that document is highly
> unlikely to make much sense (my first drafts rarely do), I'll summarise the
> ideas here.

I'd be concerned that there was no error checking/resyncing capability on
the packet.

A simple 16 bit CRC will help,but I'd also suggest some form of magic
'start of header' byte and then byte stuffing within the packet.

Currently,dropping a single byte will cause all sorts of problems,
Sprow.